5. How The Dickens Did Batman Survive The Bomb?
The auto-pilot might have been engaged, having been patched at an earlier date, but Batman certainly got into the cock-pit and piloted the Bat at least some distance out over the bay, as there was a shot of him doing just that not long mere seconds in fact - before the explosion. So we have to presume that he bailed somewhere over the water, giving himself enough time to escape the blast radius. There is a school of thought that says Nolan merely messed with us, presenting scenes non-chronologically in order to throw the audience off the scent, but that simply would not fit with the rest of the trilogy and the way Nolan told his take on Batman's story. And that explanation seems like far too much of a cop-out for Nolan, an artificial artistic flourish identified by some fans to explain a plot-hole that simply wasn't there to preserve the mythology of the director. Oh, and where was the giant tsunami that would have been caused by the huge explosion? Barely a ripple. Perhaps and you'll forgive me for getting over-excited at this one we are being set up for Gotham Zombies, a post-nuclear holocaust chiller starring undead and nuclear-enhanced Gothamites and an illuminous Batman surviving alone to change the entire dynamic of the Dark Knight. We could even see a return to Schumacher's day-glo Gotham gangs...